Category: Election 2018

For what, I am not sure yet. But why do I suspect that? Well, I have liked his politician Facebook page since way back in the day simply because it was necessary to follow him in order to write about him here. And although he’s been quite active on Facebook…

I am not going to go into all of the fabrications, changes, blown expectations, over promises, cheated municipalities, and disappointed public officials…and of course those hoping for high tech job from an international leader. But I am going to bring your attention to a quote from President Donald Trump at…

Wisconsin voters are about split evenly between the Democrats and Republicans with a healthy number who identify as independent. And for most partisan general elections, you can expect the majority of the voters to vote along party lines…with independents voting for someone who best aligns with their interests. But regardless…

I am sure all of you have seen at least one version of this now iconic photo of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and President Donald Trump. It will certainly be an illustration in history books when the chapter on the Trump regime is written. So here are my…

It’s that time of year and Wisconsin municipalities are putting together their budgets for the upcoming year. And as always, Milwaukee is struggling to meet their budgetary needs under the various restraints imposed on them by the Republicans in control of the state legislature and former Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker….

Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers called for a special session to attend to two issues around gun control that are popular with the residents of Wisconsin. Those issues? Universal background checks and ‘red-flag’ laws. Evers on Monday announced he was convening a special legislative session, which allows the governor to force…

they got to buy it and then own it! Oh geez Ed, what are you rambling about now? Well since I originally wrote about the stalemate between Wisconsin’s Attorney General and the GOP legislature over how to settle suits involving the state…we’ve moved exactly square none! Well to catch up…

I probably should have added this to my previous post about the Lame Duck settlement impasse…it sort of belongs there…but it gets more interesting. Yesterday, September 4th, the Wisconsin legislature’s Joint Finance Committee scheduled a closed door meeting to review how to handle legal settlements brought to them by the…

Instead I would suggest that it is the GOP ‘lawmakers’ who are the lame ducks. For those of you following Wisconsin politics, you are familiar with the lame duck laws pushed through the legislature and signed by outgoing Governor Scott Walker between the November 2018 election and the January 2019…

After eight years as governor of Wisconsin…eight years of trying to contain the Democratic vote in Milwaukee…eight years of starving the city…eight years of restricting Milwaukee school support…eight years of denying funding for mass transit (no trains to Madison, no money for street car, no street car allowed outside the…